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It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's protagonist - an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer - fully unravels. Propelled by stand-up comic timing and rife with pinpoint insights, Kirshenbaum examines what it means to be unloved and loved, to succeed and fail, to be at once impervious and raw. Rabbits for Food shows how art can lead us out of - or into - the depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief.

Kai lives in a mixed-race family on a rural council estate in Somerset, where he and his three older sisters have three different dads and his mum is being led into crack addiction by his petty-thief father. He idolises his dad, adores his friend, Saffie, and the school rabbit, Flopsy, and is full of ambition to be the fastest runner in Middledown Primary. He and Saffie build a secret world of friendship in the school garden.

Eine fesselnde Geschichte vor der Kulisse der wilden Küste Cornwalls. Auf Black Rabbit Hall, dem Sommersitz der Familie Alton, passiert normalerweise nicht viel. Bis zu einem stürmischen Abend 1968: Da stellt eine Tragödie die Verbundenheit der vier Alton-Geschwister auf eine harte Probe. Jahrzehnte später stoßen Lorna Smith und ihr Verlobter auf der Suche nach einem Ort für ihre Hochzeitsfeier auf ein verfallenes, aber wunderschönes Haus. Nach und nach verrät es Lorna seine schönsten Geschichten und traurigsten Momente.

This timeless classic children's story The Velveteen Rabbit, tells the story by Margery Williams of how toys become real. Originally published in 1922, The Velveteen Rabbit is a treasured favorite that has warmed many hearts for decades. A beautiful tale of a stuffed rabbit magically transformed by the power of love, adored by little ones and their grown-ups. A fantastic addition to the family audio library, to be enjoyed over and over again.